Supplementary Adamawa Polls: PDP Rocks Assembly Majority Seat

In the just concluded supplementary elections, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as successfully bag majority seats in the Adamawa State House of Assembly.

According to report, APC had 22 members while PDP had two and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) had one, before the supplementary elections. But it’s now a different story in the just concluded supplementary.

In Nasarawo/Binyeri constituency following the death of Adamu Kwanate, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), just a week to the March 9, 2019 election. INEC rescheduled the election by giving the APC time to produce another candidate.

In UBA/GAYA constituency, the election was declared inconclusive due to cancellation of elections in three units, which were concluded on Saturday.

Results as announced show that Nashion Gubi of PDP clinched the Nasarawo/Binyeri seat after polling 10,733 votes to defeat his closest rival, Mahmood Dabo, candidate of the ruling APC who scored 7,184.

Similarly, in a keenly contested Uba/Gaya Constituency seat, Aminu Iya-Abbas of the PDP polled 7,251 to floor the incumbent member, Mohammed Hayatu Atiku of APC, who trailed with 7,238.

With this outcome, PDP has now established dominance in the House with 13 members as against APC’s 11, just as its chances of producing the next Speaker has been boosted with this clear lead. The African Democratic Party (ADC) also has one.